Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon, sentence 2
An old medicine woman lived with one tribe of the Algonquins.
Who acts: old medicine woman · What happens: live
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXI. the Woman in the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old medicine woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tribe | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 tribe | nummod |
| 8 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Algonquins | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Algonquins | det |
| 11 | Algonquins | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 tribe | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old medicine woman | with one tribe of the Algonquins | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with tribe=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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